Kim and Jasmine make their way inside the fortress where Red Beard is locked up and try to make him escape, but they fail. Kim frees Red Beard at the moment of his execution. Red Beard’s escape towards the Lion of the Punjab in the Land of the Five Rivers. Kim returns to the monastery. Elsa is there awaiting him. Kim discovers that Creighton wants to attack the Lion of the Punjab since he thinks he is responsible and the leader of the uprising. Clash between Kim and the Lama. Kim leaves the monastery and wishes to reach Red Beard to tell him about the imminent attack on behalf of the British. The Lama is grieved over his separation from Kim. Kim and Elsa travel together. Adventures. British barrage. Elsa allows Kim to go beyond the British barrage. Then Kim continues on his own. Kim faces some difficulties and becomes ill. His meeting with the sahiba who accommodates him. Kim experiences visions and memories as he is delirious with fever. The sahiba treats him with her magical herbs and when Kim shows her his amulet containing the yellow flower she tells him that many years before she met a man whose eyes were the same color as Kim’s and who had shown her a similar flower. The man was very sick and tired, just like Kim, because of his long journey across India in search of his wife and child. He was resigned to never finding them again and told her that he was headed towards the Land of the Five Rivers, where he had met his wife and where he wished to be buried. Encouraged by the sahiba’s words and after having spent the night hugging the earth, Kim once again sets off on his journey along with Drì. In the meanwhile the Lama discovers that the yellow flower grows in the Land of the Five Rivers and goes looking for Kim. He meets the Russians who are headed towards the Kaiber Pass and joins them.